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“Chemist Percy Julian Honored with Google Doodle” on pcmag.com

April 11, 2014 - Philadelphia, PA

Excerpted from an article by Chloe Albanesius

Google is honoring chemist Percy Julian with a homepage doodle that celebrates his contributions to the field, particularly his synthesis of a compound found in the African Calabar bean, which was used to treat glaucoma. . . .

Though his white classmates were awarded placement in master’s or Ph.D. programs, Julian was not and instead became a chemistry professor at Fisk University in Nashville. Eventually, he secured a fellowship at Harvard, and earned a master’s degree in 1923, according to the Chemical Heritage Foundation. Read More.